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Azure
A guide to the Azure Well-Architected Framework - Part 1
03 November, 2023
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Sean Li
A Guide to the Azure Well-Architected Framework - Part 1
Azure
Landing Zones
Azure Landing Zones: benefits, automations and best practices
16 October, 2023
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Robbie Parekowhai-Gudex
Put your best foot forward In the SaaS world, an Azure landing zone is the equivalent of a building’s foundations. Do it right, and your IT infrastructure will...
Security
AWS
Bolstering Your AWS Security
07 September, 2023
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Blair Corbett and Mark Teng
How to bolster your SaaS security posture Four steps to overcome cybersecurity challenges and protect your company Your fast-growing SaaS company needs to...
Cloud
Availability
Performance
Architecting for Performance
09 January, 2023
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David Vivash
Application performance is one of the key contributors to end-user experience. Learn the hidden impacts of performance issues and improvement options
Cloud
Security
SaaS
SaaS Growth
From Start-up to Hyper-growth
21 December, 2022
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Symon Thurlow
Your SaaS company needs the freedom to focus on products and customers, not cloud platform management After helping grow more than 40 ambitious start-ups...
AWS
Azure
SaaS Growth
Striking a balance with tech debt
03 November, 2022
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Gabriel Magana
Making technical debt work for you
AWS
Azure
SaaS Growth
Understanding Technical Debt as a tool for growth
19 October, 2022
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Gabriel Magana
What happens when your business gets ahead of your tech? We explain.
Events
Insights, education and some serious inspiration
28 September, 2022
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Parallo
Article originally published by KiwiSaaS Three action-packed days at SaaStr Annual 2022
Events
We’re off to the Super Bowl of SaaS
09 September, 2022
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Parallo
SaaStr Annual 2022: lots to look forward to – and some quick tips for first-timers.
Security
AWS
Azure
How to Bolster Your Cloud Security Posture
10 August, 2022
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Blair Corbett
How to bolster your security posture Four steps to protect your company from cybersecurity threats. As a fast-growing software company, you need to focus on...
DevOps
Azure
More powerful automation? Yes, please.
30 June, 2022
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Symon Thurlow
Crescendo adds more energy to PowerShell Leverage existing command-line tools for more powerful automation Microsoft recently announced the general release of...
SaaS Growth
Events
Growing Teams in Technology
21 June, 2022
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Symon Thurlow
Tips for effectively engaging and hiring local and international talent Like many industries, IT faces its own unique set of challenges in hiring and...
Security
Cost Optimisation
SaaS Growth
Availability
Performance
Platform changes can max your growth rate
03 June, 2022
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Symon Thurlow
Find growth gold in better platform management If you’re running a SaaS business, it’s easy to be distracted by the constant fire-fighting and busywork. But...
SaaS Growth
Taking Software to the world
26 April, 2022
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Symon Thurlow
We recently had the privilege of joining Singapore's SGTech and Microsoft to present a Cloud Appreciation Series: Scaling for Success webinar. While...
Security
Cost Optimisation
SaaS Growth
The Zen of Cloud Cost Optimisation
14 April, 2022
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Parallo
Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business. For mature enterprises, the ebbs and flows of cash through the company require constant care and attention. Cash...
DevOps
Azure
Availability
Performance
Choosing between Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub
29 March, 2022
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Jay Strydom
Azure provides various messaging solutions such as Azure Storage Queues, Services Bus, Event Grid and Event Hub. Which one should you use and why? This post...
DevOps
Azure
Availability
Performance
Push vs Pull Systems: 8 benefits of using a pull system
09 March, 2022
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Jay Strydom
With 20+ years in the SaaS world as a founder and an architect spanning multiple industries, it feels great to solve business problems with proven messaging...
Azure
SaaS Growth
Why Messaging Systems matter to your SaaS
28 February, 2022
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Jay Strydom
As a Cloud Solutions Architect, I have the pleasure of reviewing the architecture for many SaaS businesses. One of my favourite components that I look for in...
People & Culture
Introducing our first COO: Parallo is growing up
09 November, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
Introducing our first COO Recently, Parallo has been enjoying hockey-stick growth mode – sharing some of the excitement (and the challenges!) that our SaaS...
Security
Cost Optimisation
DevOps
SaaS Growth
Finding Success in the World of SaaS
26 August, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
Secret to success – how three SaaS companies have achieved the dream When you’re in the trenches of your software company, it’s easy to forget about the end...
Azure
SaaS Growth
Events
Microsoft Inspire 2021: What you need to know
05 August, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
Wrap-up of Microsoft Inspire 2021 Unprecedented. The one word the world unanimously agreed adequately describes the last 18 months. At this year’s Microsoft...
Cost Optimisation
Are you burning through the cash?
22 July, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
More runway, lower cash burn As a startup founder, you're well aware that runway - the time your company can operate with its existing cash reserves - is a...
Security
SaaS Growth
Safeguarding your business reputation and customer trust
14 July, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
If people don't trust you with their data, it could destroy you When SaaS businesses first start, the primary focus is usually on attracting and acquiring...
DevOps
SaaS Growth
Performance
Getting Features out to Market
12 July, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
Sprinting isn’t an option if there are hurdles in the way In the SaaS world, getting new features to market is like a sprint to the finish line. The faster...
SaaS Growth
Building a solid foundation to scale
29 June, 2021
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Hamish Haldane
Building a solid foundation to scale To thrive in a SaaS world, you've got to design for scalability. You'll be hard-pushed to find a start-up that doesn't...
Security
Cost Optimisation
SaaS Growth
Performance
Why busywork will be the death of your Software company
15 June, 2021
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Parallo
How operational platform tasks smother business growth In most SaaS companies, it’s growth that often starts their ultimate demise. Why? Because the abrupt...
Security
DevOps
Azure
7 steps to DevSecOps - building security into your DevOps pipeline
07 May, 2021
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Blair Corbett
With increasing external threats and stricter privacy regulations, SaaS companies have been dealing with tougher scrutiny. Maintaining your reputation and...
Azure
SaaS Growth
Performance
Don’t walk in the wilderness of cloud management
22 March, 2021
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Symon Thurlow
Azure platform management commandments to live by When you’re building a business, creating a company culture, attaining funding, crafting a product or...
Security
NZ Privacy Act changes – what do you need to know?
18 March, 2021
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Blair Corbett
Technology has advanced significantly since the introduction of the New Zealand Privacy Act in 1993.
DevOps
SaaS Growth
Why you need to apply DevOps strategies to your release pipelines
29 October, 2020
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Symon Thurlow
It is common practice for software developers to take a ‘big bang’ approach to application development and release. However, this approach of ‘siloed teams of...
Company Communications
rhipe acquires Azure and Specialist IT Services provider Parallo
21 September, 2020
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Symon Thurlow
APAC’s leading cloud and technology solutions provider, rhipe (ASX: RHP), has announced that New Zealand-based Azure and specialist IT services provider...
Security
How software companies can establish comprehensive security ecosystems
01 September, 2020
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Blair Corbett
Software companies like to develop software applications and deliver them to the market as fast as possible. What can happen when the focus is on speed is...
Azure
SaaS Growth
Microsoft Azure Specialist for Software companies in NZ & Australia
21 August, 2020
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Hamish Haldane
Microsoft has today released the names of Microsoft Partners who meet the requirements of the Azure Specialist for ISV program, a new initiative from Microsoft...
Cost Optimisation
18 Cost Optimisation Tips for Software companies
06 April, 2020
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Symon Thurlow
As a service provider to many SaaS businesses, Software Creators and Independent Software Vendors (Software companies) in Australia and New Zealand, we're now...
Cost Optimisation
Azure
Avoid Bill Shock - managing your costs on Microsoft Azure
05 September, 2019
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Symon Thurlow
The maxim ‘with great power comes great responsibility’ could have been created for public cloud use. The Azure public cloud platform offers huge benefits for...
Azure
Events
People & Culture
What Happens in Vegas....well, maybe just a few juicy bits
05 August, 2019
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James Brookbanks
I, along with five of my Parallo colleagues, recently attended Microsoft’s Inspire conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas in July is an interesting...
Security
Cost Optimisation
Azure
Common pitfalls of moving to Cloud - and how to avoid them!
02 August, 2019
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Symon Thurlow
When it comes to Azure, I’m a big fan. It’s just about unbeatable when it comes to getting to market quickly.
Security
VMware
To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt, and to Stretch Cluster or Not with vSAN?
21 May, 2019
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Rafael Jucio
Firstly, why should I encrypt my data? Should you even care? Well, I think you should. I believe security should be top of mind across all that we do in IT,...
Security
VMware
Microsoft Azure and VMware diversification strategy pays off
14 May, 2019
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Sam Bentley
Cloud and IT transformation specialist Parallo has been formally recognised after receiving four new major competencies from its core partners, VMware and...
Security
VMware
vCD and NSX – A Match Made in Clouds
01 May, 2019
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Sam Bentley
Today we're going to dive into what vCloud Director is, and how NSX supercharges it. We'll largely be focusing on whatvCloud Director leverages out of NSX,...
Security
VMware
Securing Your Network and Protecting Your Applications with NSX
17 April, 2019
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Matthew Allford
A few years ago, over a few beers, I asked a Security Officer if they had ever answered a question with “yes”. I promptly got the answer I expected – “no” ? ...
Security
VMware
A Fresh Approach to Your Application Security
09 April, 2019
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Harry Offer
In a world where security-related losses are increasing at a rate far higher than that spent on the counteracting security, companies are falling victim far...
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